Yes, commercial bldgs are a different animal, and can have more ups/downs based on single tenant, change in business climate, city politics and consequent bldg use restrictions, etc.

Let’s say the topic question was instead, “What are you doing to address climate change?”.

Free advice is exactly that...free...and while there is some very good advice here, you have people who have studied years and years in this filed, litigated cases, and have advised hundreds of clients in your situation.It's no different to me than people who blindly speak about topics they no nothing of -- politics, climate change, national and global banking, etc.

Non-Extreme climate 5.

Cap ex is what you would expect in the Bay Area's mild climate.    

I do believe it's probably a question of 'when', not 'if', but at the moment, I don't see how that prototype saves any money, considering running wiring & plumbing with solid concrete walls (you'd likely furr over them with conventional stud framing, and would be building 2 walls instead of 1), meeting energy codes in different climates, envelope tightness, and satisfying aesthetic preferences. 

Dog Boarding Retering/Moving to a warmer climate.

All sources of risk, but difficult to assign a probability and handle in a normal way, due to the vast amount of uncertainty in the current economic/political climate.

The current economic climate, where debt has severely disassociated from RE value proves the concerns and power of value.

I wonder if it will feel too cold on your feet in our climate if i just put the vinyl planks on the cement.